Word

צָמֵא

tsâmêʼ · H6770 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences

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Meanings

to be thirsty

State in which humans feel a need or desire to drink, which, if prolonged, may lead to weakness and eventually death; also used figuratively to denote a strong longing or desire

Examples
Exodus 17:3 But the people were thirsty for water there; and they grumbled against Moses and said, “Why is it that you have brought us up from Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”
Judges 4:19 And he said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a leather bottle of milk and gave him a drink; then she covered him.
Judges 15:18 Then he became very thirsty, and he called to the LORD and said, “You have handed this great victory over to Your servant, and now am I to die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
to be thirsty > to long for

Literally: to thirst (for God); hence: state in which humans experience a deep longing to experience the nearness of God

Examples
Psalm 42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?
Psalm 63:1 God, You are my God; I shall be watching for You; My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, In a dry and exhausted land where there is no water.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

10 occurrences in 7 groups

Not stated: they 3
נֶפֶשׁsoul, life 2
עַםpeople 1
אַתָּהyou 1
Not stated: I 1
Not stated: you (one person) 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for+ מַיִםwater 1
לto/for+ ךָּyou 1

With adverbsAdverbs

4 occurrences in 3 groups

לֹאnot 2
מְאֹדvery 1
שָׁםthere 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

διψάω dipsáō · G1372 · to be thirsty, thirst, to desire strongly: Greek διψάω directly translates Hebrew צָמֵא across both literal physical thirst and figurative spiritual longing senses, serving as the standard LXX rendering of this concept.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Thirst002004001001003: צָמֵא means to be thirsty, as of the people thirsty for water in the wilderness in Exodus 17:3, Sisera thirsty and asking for a drink in Judges 4:19, Samson very thirsty after his victory in Judges 15:18, and Ruth told she may drink from the water jars when thirsty in Ruth 2:9.
Wish002004002001001: This domain's connection to צָמֵא is not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which show the word's sense of physical thirst rather than desire or wishing.

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

צָמֵאtsâmêʼ · H6770צָמָא tsâmâʼ · H6772 · thirst, thirsty, dry · 17×צָמֵא tsâmêʼ · H6771 · thirsty, dry · 9×צִמָּאוֹן tsimmâʼôwn · H6774 · thirsty ground, parched ground · 3×צִמְאָה tsimʼâh · H6773 · thirst · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6770. tsame [צָמֵא] verb be thirsty (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew (rare); so Arabic…

H6770. tsame
[צָמֵא] verb be thirsty (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew (rare); so Arabic Ethiopic : Assyrian ƒûmu, thirst, etc.); —
Qal Perfect3feminine singular צָֽמְאָה Psa 42:3; Psa 63:2; Psa 63:2feminine singular וְצָמִת consecutive Rth 2:9 (Ges§ 75qq); 1 singular צָמֵתִי Jdg 4:19 (Ges§ 74k); 3 plural צָֽמְאוּ Isa 28:21; Imperfect3masculine singular וַיִּצְמָא Exo 17:3; Jdg 15:18; Jdg 15:3masculine plural יִצְמָ֑אוּ Isa 49:10, ׳וַיִּצ Job 24:11; Job 24:2masculine plural תִּצְמָ֑אוּ Isa 65:13; — be thirsty Jdg 4:19; Jdg 15:18; Rth 2:9; Isa 48:21; Isa 49:10 (|| יִרְעָ֑בוּ), Isa 65:13 (|| תִּרְעָ֑בוּ) Job 24:11; with ל of thing, Exo 17:3 (E); figurative לֵאלֹהִים נַפְשִׁי צָֽמְאָה. Psa 42:3 my soul thirsteth for God, compare Psa 63:2.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0